Adolfo's Restaurant Review: Dimly lit and funky, this neighborhood café is perched above a barroom and overlooks the nightlife of Frenchmen Street. It is well known by locals as a bargain, with reliable food, even if owner-chef Adolfo Perez is occasionally a bit heavy-handed with the salt. The New Orleans-style menu features such dishes as cannelloni stuffed with local crab meat and cream sauce or oysters with spinach and Pernod. Seafood is the specialty, and each night the kitchen offers a wide array of fish with a choice of sauces, including the rich, shellfish-studded "ocean sauce." Most entrées also include a portion of spaghetti in red sauce. The wine list is rudimentary and diners must fetch their own cocktails from the separate bar operation downstairs. Desserts are lackluster but the cheesecake is respectable. The real reason to dine here is for what the chef creates with Gulf fish. Service is perfunctory---on a good night. |
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